Elland records

[woopom]

Thomas Hepworth and Janet Sunderland married in Elland 8 Sep 1577 - are there any records before this date - bapt, marr or burr

[BumbleB]

According to the list from West Yorkshire Archive Service, the parish registers for St Mary Elland commence 1559.

[J.R.Ellam]

Yes unfortunately the records start after 1558.

[eborfamilyhistory]

I've been looking at a family from Leeds of about the same time quite recently and so far the most useful records have been wills. One confirmed two of his daughters marriages and also gave the parish of his birth.

The Borthwick institute has full indexes of wills from the period.

Paul

[Trevor Paul]

I have the Elland church records on my computer and they start from 1558 for Bap and bur, and from 1559 for marr.Do you need any assistancre.  Regards Trevor

[Mercel]

Thomas Hepworth and Janet Sunderland married in Elland 8 Sep 1577 - are there any records before this date - bapt, marr or burr

Hi Woopom
Did you ever manage to get a result for this marriage. I am trying to trace 12 x great grandparents Thomas and Janet and although I can see a transcript of marriage  I am trying to find father of Janet.
Several trees have Richard Sunderland but I’m not sure he is her father.

[dobfarm]

Hi Mercel,

The fact that Janet married 8 Sep 1577 Elland, unless there is a supporting baptism say 1538 (year most parish registers started or later ) to say 1560 -I'd be very suspicious of them tree entries as Janet's father Richard.
2 reasons
1 ) A lot of trees are copied from 1 entry tree and 2) LSD members have - I believe  - have to research back at least 6 generations -thus the original tree entry for Janet could be a bit of artistic license out of desperation in those early parish register years.

As an apprentice in an engineering factory age 15 - I was told by a skilled engineer to give this factory builder maintenance chap called Tom a pint mug of tea, over 20 years on very rare meeting him by chance around the factory  - I called this chap Tom till one day he said- by the way? my name Keith not Tom.

The moral is  - not everything is what it seems sometimes.

D/farm